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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?

2. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?

3. Where did the Dorr Rebellion take place?

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?

5. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the traditions and cultures of the Native American tribes described regarding their perception of women in Chapter 6?

2. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?

3. Who wrote the history of Columbus’s adventures in Cuba from the perspective of the inhabitants, according to the author in Chapter 1?

4. How does the author describe the uprisings in Kentucky and other colonies in 1760 in Chapter 4?

5. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?

6. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?

7. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?

8. How does the author describe the Sioux puberty ceremony for women in Chapter 6?

9. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?

10. What positive qualities of the establishment of the United States does Zinn discuss in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine and discuss the Seminole Wars, the policy of Indian removal, and the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law? By whom? What were the effects of this act on the Native Americans living both east and west of the Mississippi?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the chain of oppression in Jamestown and the other British colonies in the latter half of the 1600s. In the social hierarchy, where did women exist? Where were African slaves and Native Americans in the hierarchy? Who had the greatest economic control?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the policies of President Woodrow Wilson. In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms. What were these reforms? How did they affect the common citizens of the country?

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